Can touching a barbell in the gym get you sick with the coronavirus?

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

I knew they were out there, and just as my inbox was melting down into a smoldering pit of ugliness and rage after I criticized one of their counterparts, they found me before I could find them.

Gym owners. Responsible ones. Small-business proprietors who watched, with mixed levels of frustration and disappointment, the situation unfolding in Bellmawr -- and wanted to get across a very similar message.

That guy does not speak for us.

“My biggest fear is that the average person is going to look at this and say, ‘Well that’s a New Jersey gym owner for you right there. This is what we’re dealing with,’” Brian Bott told me. “And, if it was another industry and I was looking at it, I’d probably feel that way, too.'”

Bott owns Aspire Fitness in Colts Neck. He agrees with Ian Smith, the co-owner of Atilis Gym in the South Jersey town, on one very important point: He wants to open his business as soon as possible. He has to open his business as soon as possible.

But Bott calls what Smith is doing “an obvious stunt for attention.” He isn’t about to break the state shutdown orders like Smith did, drawing dozens of protesters to his front door, and do pushups in the parking lot. He isn’t going to head onto Fox News, pretending that he is taking a stand for something bigger than his own interests.

 

[ergomaniac]

 

[ergomaniac]

"Let me put it very clearly, you have no constitutional right to endanger the public and spread disease, even if you disagree," he said. "You have no right not to be vaccinated, you have no right not to wear a mask, you have no right to open up your business."
"And if you refuse to be vaccinated, the state has the power to literally take you to a doctor's office and plunge a needle into your arm."
"They should give you an alternative. The alternative is to live in your home, don't get vaccinated, but never ever leave your home or live in a bubble."
Dershowitz argued that healthcare workers and officials forcibly vaccinating the public through a legislative and judicial process that comes to a consensus on widespread vaccination is the best defense against the spread of disease.

 

[master.on]

Can touching a barbell in the gym get you sick with the coronavirus?

Wrong question.

A better question would be:
Can you get the novel coronavirus just by BREATHING in the gym?
Answer: YES you can. Yes you will.

Gyms are extremely high risk as people are breathing heavily when lifting, thus more virus droplets may come out, and forceful inhalation makes it more likely to get infected.

 

[movingiron88]

@master.on and @Michael Scally MD should both stay at home and play with their pussies while the rest of the adults go on with their lives. STAY HOME GIRLS!!! It's your right.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

A Man Shared A Shocking Photo Of What COVID-19 Did To Him After Six Weeks In A Hospital
Coronavirus Patient Shares Shocking Before-And-After Photos

As he sat in his bed in a Boston hospital's coronavirus ward, Mike Schultz chatted with one of his favorite nurses about his treatment of being sedated and intubated.

"I thought only a week had gone by," he told BuzzFeed News.
That's when she let him know he hadn't been in the ward for one week — he'd been there for six.

"I was so weak. This was one of the most frustrating parts," he recalled. "I couldn’t hold my cellphone; it was so heavy. I couldn’t type, because my hands shook so much."

The 43-year-old nurse from San Francisco had no underlying health conditions. He normally worked out six or seven times a week. He weighed about 190 pounds. When he spoke with BuzzFeed News on Tuesday, weeks after he'd been able to start eating foods again, he weighed just 140 pounds. His lung capacity is only now starting to slowly come back.

Last week, Schultz shared a photo of the toll COVID-19 had taken on his body to his 30,000 Instagram followers. The picture on the left was taken about a month before he first got sick. He took the photo on the right in a recovery ward. It exhausted him to stand up from the bed for a few minutes to take the picture, he said.

 

[movingiron88]

Everybody run and hide under your beds!!!!!

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Even small differences in timing would have prevented the worst exponential growth, which by April had subsumed New York City, New Orleans and other major cities, researchers found.

If the United States had begun imposing social distancing measures one week earlier than it did in March, about 36,000 fewer people would have died in the coronavirus outbreak, according to new estimates from Columbia University disease modelers. Differential Effects of Intervention Timing on COVID-19 Spread in the United States

And if the country had begun locking down cities and limiting social contact on March 1, two weeks earlier than most people started staying home, the vast majority of the nation’s deaths — about 83 percent — would have been avoided, the researchers estimated.

Under that scenario, about 54,000 fewer people would have died by early May.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

With each passing day, the strip club in downtown Manhattan grew a little emptier. Fewer customers were drinking premium liquor and eating steaks in the plush banquettes; fewer patrons were sitting at the edge of the blue-lit stage; fewer clients were throwing dollar bills at the dancers performing on poles or in their laps. “It felt weird. There was an air of desperation almost,” Nico, a dancer at the club, told me.

As the city slowly woke up to the spread of the coronavirus this spring, so, too, did the dancers at clubs across town, whose work necessitates being physically close to strangers: talking to them, consoling them, and entertaining them. By late March, most of New York’s strip clubs had shut down—clubs in much of the rest of the country did the same—and, now, like hundreds of thousands of other workers, at the very least, in the sex industry, dancers are facing not only a drop in employment but also discrimination and stigma as they search for relief.

Nico, who describes stripping as her economic “safety net,” said, “This line of work has the word ‘independent’ built into the job description. The club was not going to take care of us. We were left to fend for ourselves.”

The pandemic has created a catastrophic health and economic crisis that has illuminated the fragile existence of low-wage and gig workers in the United States. The experience of sex workers, of whom the most stable work as independent contractors, is no different. (Some strip clubs offer workers employee status, but they are in the minority; in Nevada, where prostitution is legal in some counties, workers at brothels are considered independent contractors.)

Like undocumented workers who are barred from getting government benefits in exchange for their labor, and prison laborers who receive little consideration of their rights as workers, sex workers have few places to turn for help. Federal law bars the issuance of disaster loans and grant assistance to applicants who “present live performances of a prurient sexual nature” or who earn income “through the sale of products or services, or the presentation of any depictions or displays, of a prurient sexual nature.”

Strippers, pornography performers, and owners of sex-toy and other adult-entertainment businesses are ineligible. Sex workers who make their money on the street and cannot access public assistance are also wary of trying to access social services, for fear of being arrested.

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[Jankauskas]

@master.on and @Michael Scally MD should both stay at home and play with their pussies while the rest of the adults go on with their lives. STAY HOME GIRLS!!! It's your right.

I honestly don’t know what the purpose of this idiot being here is, he doesn’t help, doesn’t give any useful advice Whatsoever, all he does is leave his dump-of-shit postings that no one seems to care about and leave.

I don’t understand why he chooses to pass his time by doing what he does here in the forums, maybe he’s just the propaganda machine that was assigned to this forum???? Or maybe he’s just terrible bored or his life is so pathetic that he finds solace in leaving walls of text that no one even reads on a steroid board ????

Who knows...

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Low Testosterone Levels Predict Clinical Adverse Outcomes in SARS-CoV-2 Pneumonia Patients

Background - The pandemic of new severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) due to coronavirus (CoV) 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) has stressed the importance of effective diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers of clinical worsening and mortality. Epidemiological data showing a differential impact of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection on women and men has suggested a potential role for testosterone (T) in determining gender‐disparity in the SARS‐CoV‐2 clinical outcomes.

Objectives - To estimate the association between T level and SARS‐CoV‐2 clinical outcomes (defined as conditions requiring transfer to higher or lower intensity of care or death) in a cohort of patients admitted in the Respiratory Intensive Care Unit (RICU)

Materials and methods - A consecutive series of 31 male patients affected by SARS‐CoV‐2 pneumonia and recovered in the Respiratory Intensive Care Unit (RICU) of the “Carlo Poma” Hospital in Mantua were analyzed. Several biochemical risk factors (i.e., blood count and leucocyte formula, C‐ Reactive Protein (CRP), procalcitonin (PCT), Lactic Dehydrogenase (LDH), Ferritin, D‐Dimer, Fibrinogen, Interleukin 6 (IL‐6)) as well as total testosterone (TT), calculated free T (cFT), Sex Hormone Binding Globulin (SHBG), and Luteinizing Hormone (LH) were determined.

Results - Lower TT and cFT were found in the transferred to ICU/deceased in RICU group vs. groups of patients transferred to IM or maintained in the RICU in stable condition. Both TT and cFT showed a negative significant correlation with biochemical risk factors (i.e. the neutrophil count, LDH and PCT) but a positive association with the lymphocyte count. Likewise, TT was also negatively associated with CRP and ferritin levels. A steep increase of both ICU transfer or mortality risk was observed in men with TT<5 nmol/L or cFT< 100 pmol/L.

Discussion and Conclusion - Our study demonstrates for the first time that lower baseline levels of TT and cFT levels predict poor prognosis and mortality in SARS‐CoV‐2 infected men admitted to RICU.

Rastrelli G, Di Stasi V, Inglese F, et al. Low testosterone levels predict clinical adverse outcomes in SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia patients. Andrology 2020. Error - Cookies Turned Off

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

This naughty nurse is going viral.

A nurse in Russia was suspended from the hospital where she worked in Tula, 100 miles south of Moscow, after she arrived at her shift in the all-male coronavirus patient wing with no clothing save for her skivvies under her transparent personal protective equipment.

The unidentified staffer told her managers at Tula Regional Clinical Hospital that she was “too hot” to wear clothing underneath the head-to-toe vinyl gown, which protected her from contracting COVID-19. The incident was first reported by a local news outlet, the Tula Pressa newspaper.

While there were reportedly “no complaints” from her patients, hospital chiefs punished the nearly nude nurse for “non-compliance with the requirements for medical clothing.” The nurse claimed she did not realize that her underwear was showing through the PPE.

However, the regional health ministry confirmed that “a disciplinary sanction was applied to the nurse of the infectious diseases department who violated [uniform] requirements,” the Sun reports. They did not elaborate on what exactly the disciplinary measure would be.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[TheAngryHog]

Just read through this thread, I'm always interested in what the anonymous internet has to say. It really is the last unfiltered place for thoughts, ideas, and news.

People like @Michael Scally MD - and I'm not bashing you as a person, dude, I respect that you are entitled to your opinions and to craft your lifestyle accordingly - but this is why Trump was elected as our President. Most normal people in the US, like working people who pay taxes, have families or friends or hobbies that they enjoy doing, are sick of this bullshit. Don't want to go to the gym? Stay home and don't go! I don't impose my beliefs on you, don't impose yours on mine.

I disagree with having to wear a mask at the store but you know what, I will begrudgingly do it at supermarkets because I realize everyone has to go there to eat and drink. But you want me to wear one at the beach? GTFO of here, don't go if you're scared. Same rationale for the gym, the park, the golf courses, the bars, on and on.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[ergomaniac]

Just read through this thread, I'm always interested in what the anonymous internet has to say. It really is the last unfiltered place for thoughts, ideas, and news.

People like @Michael Scally MD - and I'm not bashing you as a person, dude, I respect that you are entitled to your opinions and to craft your lifestyle accordingly - but this is why Trump was elected as our President. Most normal people in the US, like working people who pay taxes, have families or friends or hobbies that they enjoy doing, are sick of this bullshit. Don't want to go to the gym? Stay home and don't go! I don't impose my beliefs on you, don't impose yours on mine.

I disagree with having to wear a mask at the store but you know what, I will begrudgingly do it at supermarkets because I realize everyone has to go there to eat and drink. But you want me to wear one at the beach? GTFO of here, don't go if you're scared. Same rationale for the gym, the park, the golf courses, the bars, on and on.

I really like @Michael Scally MD. But some of the docs posts, politically, seem to swing to the far left. Maybe he's just playing devils advocate.
I wonder if these extreme measures will be worse than the virus in the long term.

 

[Millard]

@master.on and @Michael Scally MD should both stay at home and play with their pussies while the rest of the adults go on with their lives. STAY HOME GIRLS!!! It's your right.

I honestly don’t know what the purpose of this idiot being here is, he doesn’t help, doesn’t give any useful advice Whatsoever, all he does is leave his dump-of-shit postings that no one seems to care about and leave.

I don’t understand why he chooses to pass his time by doing what he does here in the forums, maybe he’s just the propaganda machine that was assigned to this forum???? Or maybe he’s just terrible bored or his life is so pathetic that he finds solace in leaving walls of text that no one even reads on a steroid board ????

Who knows...

@Michael Scally MD has contributed far more useful information to the steroid community than anyone else on this forum. What is truly pathetic is that some people fail to recognize his contributions and choose to personally attack and insult him rather than show appreciation for the vast amount of time and research he devotes to educating the community.

 

[Jankauskas]

@Michael Scally MD has contributed far more useful information to the steroid community than anyone else on this forum. What is truly pathetic is that some people fail to recognize his contributions and choose to personally attack and insult him rather than show appreciation for the vast amount of time and research he devotes to educating the community.

I can’t speak for what he did before I was on this forum, but ever since I participate, all I have seen from him are sarcasm/irony ridden posts that seem to mock, rather than educate users about their use of anabolics, and lately just spam fear mongering posts and propaganda about this current situation.